Calvin / Bruce Gordon.
The book explores with particular insight Calvin's self-conscious view of himself as prophet and apostle for his age and his struggle to tame a sense of his own superiority, perceived by others as arrogance. Gordon looks at Calvin's character, his maturing vision of God and humanity, his p...
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New Haven [Conn.] ; London :
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Table of Contents:
- A French youth
- Among the princes of law
- 'At last delivered' : conversion and flight
- Exile in a hidden corner
- Violent reformations and tumult
- Discovering the church
- 'Lucid brevity' for the sake of the church : Romans
- Building Christ's church
- Calvin's world
- Healing Christ's body
- 'Since Calvin acts so bravely, why does he not come here?' : France
- The years of conflict
- 'There is no form of impiety that this monster has not raked up'
- Luther's heirs
- European reformer
- The 'perfecte schoole of Christe'
- Churches and blood : France
- Endings.